During its early days in 1958, I remember the Art Cinema serving free espresso before (and after?) the show, provided by Ekroth Food Service of Warwick.
Were the kids served espresso? At that time I remember the Art Cinema serving free espresso before the show, provided by Ekroth Food Service of Warwick.
This theatre was renamed Bullock’s Theatre by September 18, 1909, as relayed in ads and newspaper blurbs on that date. It was distinguished from the Bullock’s Theatre in nearby Providence.
Tilden-Thurber Building beyond on right, at Mathewson Street. Down further on the right, but not visible here, would be Keith’s Theatre, which had become the Victory.
THE TRANSGRESSOR: “About Father Conway, a crusading priest, in a world of change. Industrial agitators, politic up-rise, revolutions passing by.”-IMdB
Here the Lyric Theatre.
The film on that marquee was “Electra Glide in Blue” with Robert Blake.
The photo on the left was taken in the 1960s. It appeared in the Boston Globe in 2008.
Second theatre in from left.
My photo, such as it is.
I’m assuming the Colonial was also known as the Onset.
The Lyric is third from left.
During its early days in 1958, I remember the Art Cinema serving free espresso before (and after?) the show, provided by Ekroth Food Service of Warwick.
Were the kids served espresso? At that time I remember the Art Cinema serving free espresso before the show, provided by Ekroth Food Service of Warwick.
“White Woman” was a 1933 film. The photo is likely from that year.
In The Woonsocket Call. The films shown that night were “Henry Goes Arizona” with Frank Morgan and “British Intelligence” with Boris Karloff.
In 1980.
Viewable on YouTube, complete, without subtitles.
Can someone (from Stonington maybe) post an interior view of the place?
From the archives of the Brown Daily Herald.
From the archives of the Brown Daily Herald.
This theatre was renamed Bullock’s Theatre by September 18, 1909, as relayed in ads and newspaper blurbs on that date. It was distinguished from the Bullock’s Theatre in nearby Providence.
The film on the poster is “Torment,” from 1944, directed by Alf Sjöberg, written by Ingmar Bergman.
I was taken to see this here, during that run, when I was eight years old.
I was taken to see it here at age five.
Tilden-Thurber Building beyond on right, at Mathewson Street. Down further on the right, but not visible here, would be Keith’s Theatre, which had become the Victory.
Circa 1951.
December 26, 1944 ad says the program was in its last two days. Honey Murray was a performer in a burlesque act. “Minstrel Man” was a movie.
In The Woonsocket Call.